Sentences with phrase «systems on the distant planet»

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Batygin and Brown continue to refine their simulations and learn more about the planet's orbit and its influence on the distant solar system.

On Earth, this relationship between distant events in a planet's climate system is known as teleconnection.

When it takes to the skies in 2001, it will train an infrared eye on interstellar clouds, the center of the Milky Way, planets in the solar system and distant galaxies — many of the same things that sirtf will look at a few years hence.

Since Pluto's demotion from the brotherhood of planets a few years back, Neptune has taken on the mantle of responsibility of most distant planet in the solar system.

Journey to the Exoplanets is a hands - on introduction to the distant planets that continue to be discovered outside our Solar System.

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

The goal of the ARIEL mission is to investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds planets orbiting distant stars in order to address the fundamental questions on how planetary systems form and evolve.

(McGill University) The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

Now, for an analogous banking of humans, say, on a watered area of Mars and eventually on a distant system not likely to be hit by the same gamma - ray burster that sterilizes this planet.

It is being done by the people who launched the Kepler satellite to detect small dips in the brightness of distant stars in order to detect the presence of now ~ 1000 new planets in the last several years, completely re-writing the textbooks on the parameter space of planetary atmospheres, solar system formation, etc..

Therefore, a distant observer could distinguish between a planet with no atmosphere, and one with an atmosphere with GHGs and, potentially, could determine the energy flows within the system based on the outgoing spectrum.